Slot Machine Game for BlackBerry
Posted by Gavin Bowman on Saturday, July 28, 2007 at 10:08 AM
Yesterday we launched another new BlackBerry game, Antair Video Slots.
It has a modern multiple pay line 5 reel video slot game with an Asteroid Jane space theme, a more traditionally themed 3 reel one arm bandit style slot machine, and a pirate themed 3 reel slots game with hold reels and multiple paylines.
We built the game around the same core as Antair Video Poker, which launched last week. With both games we tried to recreate the fun and accessibility of casino games, and capture the one-more-go impulse.
As Andrey noted in his blog post about the new game last night, we're switching over to a desktop PC/Mac game for our next product. We've been bouncing ideas back and forth and spurring each other on over the last 6 months or so of this game development venture, so by now we've built up a solid idea backlog. I've been building a lot of Flash prototypes and we've tested several game ideas with various game engines, IDEs, and frameworks, but the time came to pick one and get on with it. We're done with our technology evaluations, we have a solid preliminary design for the game, and we have an artist on board, so the next few months should be very exciting.
2 Comments:
Wow you guys are impressive! Do you outsource any of the production? How hard/easy is it to develop for blackberry compared to other systems? It's a shame I don't have a Blackberry to try these out.
Hey Phil. With Asteroid Jane we brought in some extra help for some of the graphics, and we'll be getting extra artistic input for future games, but Andrey and I were able to put these last two together by ourselves.
The BlackBerry has it's quirks, like most systems, but it's generally an enjoyable platform to work on. Dealing with all the different models can take up a bit of time, though: OS versions, screen shapes, sizes and resolutions, and available input devices. And, if you go straight there from a modern desktop, it feels odd to have to think about file size and memory contraints again :).
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